Haqqani network

The Haqqani network is an Afghan guerrilla insurgent group that was founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani in around 1970. The network's roots were nationalistic and religious, and the group was nurtured by the American CIA and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence during the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s. After the Taliban capture of Kabul in 1996, the Haqqani network aligned itself with the Taliban, and it took part in the guerrilla war against the United States and its NATO allies during the Afghanistan War. The group grew to have between 4,000 and 15,000 guerrilla fighters, and it demanded the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and an end to US interference with traditional Afghan society.